ARTISTS

Matazz is committed  to supporting emerging artists by providing them with visibility, recognition, and opportunities for growth

Albert Christian

Geneva, Switzerland

Christian Albert is a Mexican-German artist and was born in Geneva.
Throughout the last two years of his post-secondary education, he embarked on aprofound artistic journey, mainly dedicated to painting.

As he began painting, hisinspiration drew heavily from artists such as Gerard Richter and Jean-MichelBasquiat.His interest later shifted towards painters including Kimber Smith, HansHofmann, Robert Ryman, Christopher Wool and others. His artwork has keptevolving significantly, and in recent production focuses on a deep simplicity thatintricately engages with Gestalt principles, particularly the interplay of figure andground, as well as the concept of similarity.

Asarfelt

Vejle, Denmark

Asarfelt, born in Denmark and raised in the vibrant city of Bangkok. A largely self-taught artist, until she started her journey studying visual arts in the Swiss Alpsfrom2016-2020. It was here that she began her work with diverse mediums such asmetal, clay, resin, and most significantly, paint.

From 2020 onwards she furtheredher studies of visual arts in Milan. Her approach to materials is unorthodox as itoften incorporates unusual media like chocolate, coffee, wine, and even cigaretteash.Asarfelt's work is a distinctive blend of the worldly and the personal. Sherepurposes features of our environment, imbuing them with a new life andmeaning. Her art is a testament to her belief that human-made objects are asnatural as the world around us. She challenges the traditional dichotomy of manversus nature, urging us to consider ourselves as an intrinsic part of the naturalworld, not its consumers.Today, Asarfelt continues her artistic exploration from her home studio in Milan,producing a diverse array of found object sculptures, installations and naturalisticpaintings.

Baronesse

Lugano / Zurich, Switzerlandd

Baronesse was born as a joke between friends and It became a fun collaborationbetween a DJ and a percussionist.

Both interested in Brazilian and African sounds,they want to awaken the rhythm inside their listeners.
Their goal is to make theaudience dance, enjoy the present and smile at life.

Bessot Elliot 

Biel, Switzerland

Eliot, a multimedia artist and student at the University of the Arts Bern, majoring inArt Education, places his primary emphasis on video as an artistic medium.

Hisexploration spans a wide array of subjects, with a notable focus on the digitallandscape and artificial intelligence. He adeptly maneuvers between the tangibleand the virtual, frequently crafting a humorously absurd ambiance that ingeniouslymasks underlying and more profound themes.

Conconi Nina

Lugano, Switzerland

Nina Conconi (2001) is an artist from Lugano, Ticino. She is currently based inZurich, where she is pursuing her Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at the ZürcherHochschule der Kunste (ZHdK).

Having initially explored body perception and her own struggle with eatingdisorders, the artist transitioned to more political themes, incorporating personalexperiences to highlight the concept that "personal is political" (or better"everything is political").In her latest works, she examines prisoner perception, delving into confinement,justice, and power dynamics. By intertwining individual stories with larger societalissues, her art prompts viewers to reflect on the interplay between personalnarratives and broader systems.

Delcó Tommaso 

Lugano, Switzerland

Born in Lugano in 1997, he is an architect fascinated by the exploration of newspatial meanings, the transformation of the existing and its relation to society.

He questions the multiple dimensions of architecture placing artistic, political, andenvironmental considerations at the very heart of his thinking.

Dieieva Diana 

Kharkiv, Ukraine

Diana was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1998. Since the age of 5, she has beenconveying emotions through visual art. Over the years, she studied and worked with watercolor, oil painting, sculpturesand screen printing. After refining her illustration techniques at IED in Barcelona,she decided to join the Visual Arts faculty at NABA in Milan.

During these 4 years she further explored and honed her array of techniques invarious forms, including video editing plane and installations. Today, she considersherself a professional painter focusing on Ukrainian culture. Now that she hasgraduated from NABA, she is developing her knowledge in 3D illustration.As her next steps, she is looking to join a creative company where she can truly beherself, learn, grow and share her knowledge as well as develop her graphicdesign and 3D modelling skills. She likes to be attentive to details and is eager tocreate within a team, pushing to motivate and support the others. Diana seesherself as a self-motivated and curious woman open to new knowledge and tomeeting creative people.

Ehrensperger Maurice 

Bern, Switzerland

Maurice is an art student hailing from La Neuveville, currently pursuing his studiesin Bern. His artistic focus revolves primarily around the depiction of people,employing a diverse array of tools and techniques like markers, spray paints andpaints.There is no main theme throughout his works as he simply aspires to producethings that are free of pretense.

Gill Magdalena 

Vienna, Austria

Currently based in Milan, over the past 3 years Magdalena Gill has been mostlyfocusing on improving her skills in painting. Her main subjects are people throughwhich she explores interpersonal relationships.

Lately she has been expressing herinterests through various media to understand and connect different perspectives.Magdalena mainly works with painting as well as videos in which she portrays herlived reality. The display of her work is particularly important to bring attention tothe exaggerated and focused themes like the reappropriation of the viewer as themain subject.

Jojot

Lugano, Switzerland

Jojot Selection consists mainly of a vinyl collection of two friends, behind whichthere is continuous and in-depth research. In this collection, one can find particularsounds and melodies ranging from 1970s Africa, the Arab world, Indian disco,Brazilian jazz and even Italian pop music ("60s-'80s). In the last period, the focusof Jojot Selection has been mainly on the search for Afro- and Arab- funk songs,as their typical sounds have aroused our interest and appreciation.

Mazzoleni Vanessa

Lugano, Switzerland

From a blend of Canadian and Swiss heritage, Vanessa was born in Lugano in1998, but later moved to Zürich to pursue her studies in architecture.

However, herpassion for 3D modelling eventually took center stage leading her to do a diplomain Videogame Design and Animation. Her goal is to craft intricate, surrealisticscenarios striving for realism in every scene. Recently she's exploring the excitingrealm of video mapping, and is eager to manipulate and transform any dark, emptyspaces into captivating experiences.

Palacino Filippo 

Milan, Italy

Co-Founder of the Ben Rubens art studio, his art is centered around the dynamicdepiction of inner states of mind. Filippo Palacino is currently working on the series"100 Pages", which investigates the complex concept of the panic attack from theartist's very own traumatic past experience.

Pagliarani Flora 

Mendrisio, Switzerland

Born in Ticino and currently a student of Product Design - Jewellery andAccessory Design at the HEAD Institute in Geneva, Flora Pagliarani draws herin spiration from both a practical and aesthetic need by focusing on the necessities of everyday life.

Her creative process originates in experimenting with new techniques and materials, with the aim of finding a combination of beauty and efficiency. This experimentation leads her to a continuous research for newcreative languages.She wants to transmit what she perceives, finding space for a narrative dimensionin her works without claiming to provide an univocal vision of the world.Saturday she is going to showcase her new projects alongside with the ones of herbrother Biagio.

Panelli Alessandro 

Lugano, Switzerland

Alessandro was born in 1998 and studied at the Faculty of Arts at the University ofLausanne in History and Aesthetics of Cinema and English Literature. He is a self-taught director and nurtures an interest in gentle, refined documentary language and at the same time shameless, unfiltered fiction.
He self-produced his first shortfilm Garbage Sonata right after finishing his studies.He is now working as live director at RSI SSR.

Primos

Rome / Milan, Italy

The musical journey between these 2 Italian Djs began in 2019 when they first metat university and shared the same passion for music.Their musical taste was forged through influences ranging from 80s Italian legendsto the very heart of electronic music.

Their musical style as DJs ranges from AfroTech to Indie dance to melodic Techno.Their sets take listeners on a captivating journey through pulsating rhythms andmesmerizing soundscapes.Collettivo artistico MatazzWith the aim of offering dancers something more than just music. This has enabledthem to play frequently in the Lausanne region of Switzerland.

Rescigno Pasquale 

Milan, Italy

Pasquale was born in Milan in 1999. At the age of 3, due to a malign retinal tumor,he lost his right eye. His handicap led him to develop great interest andinvolvement in photographic language and social issues regarding this theme.

In his teenage years this interest evolved into a deeper visual research and strivefor a personal expression.Formed by the internationally praised photoreporter Valerio Bispuri, his main focusare social issues, with particular emphasis on the emotional closeness to the livesand personalities of the pictured subjects.

Sànchez Memo 

Toluca, Mexico

Born in Mexico in 1999, Memo Sánchez Cardenas is a multifaceted artist andarchitecture student based in Milan, Italy.Practicing painting since his young age, he did his first painting solo exhibition inhis hometown Toluca at age15.

Three years later, he participated in a group show and painted a mural at ArtBasel Miami 2018, that being his first international exhibition. Following a pivotalencounter with Virgil Abloh, Memo delved into the realm of filmmaking bydesigning and building the sets for a couple of short film projects in Mexico. Thisexperience marked a turning point, prompting his transition towards architecture.He relocated to Milan in 2019, after securing a scholarship in visual arts. A yearlater, he shifted his focus to the School of Architecture at Politecnico di Milano,where he currently studies.His artistic practice revolves around and explores subjects like the internet andcontemporary spaces as production sites, the impact of mass media, the world ofdigital imagery and the fusion of traditional painting techniques with the samplingand generation of modern visual culture.

Sarmiento Javier 

Mexico City, Mexico

Javier Sarmiento-Javi-spent his childhood in Guatemala before returning to live inMexico. His work is rooted in a deep fascination for the nature of the self and theother, viewed through an obsessive lens of binaries,opposites andcontrasts, exemplified by concepts such as gender, beauty, sexuality.

Through his musework, the reproduction of their-self is done with the purpose ofbecoming real, natural. Capturing them-himself or the other-in moments revealingintimate personal truths. Whether it be through chromatic language, or the rips andburns in the canvas, the subject is rebelliously dissected and reinterpreted byvarious means.For Javi, the energy created between artist and muse, between the gazer and thegazed, is necessary. It constitutes an attempt to achieve complete harmony withthe self, through the other.Currently living in Milan, Italy, Javi explores his passion for the introspection of thedelicate dance between subject, space and emotion depicted on his canvases.

Sprenger Ben 

Toronto, Canada

The artist taught himself to draw after high school, inspired by cartooning,illustration, and above all, caricature. His "Pulp" interests have developed into anobsession by means of all forms of figurative drawing and painting. He seesportraiture as a way to capture more about a person than meets the naked eye-acaricature of the soul, as well as of the flesh.

Vancheri Chiara 

Bellinzona, Switzerland

Born in Bellinzona in 2001, Chiara currently resides and studies in Lucerne.In her artistic practice, she explores the world of textiles, and particularly engageswith tufting.

Textiles captivate her for various reasons. On one hand, she is intrigued by thepolitical dimension that accompanies the history of textiles. In her opinion, onecould analyze the history of women's emancipation by considering the evolution oftextile art, as something moving from being traditionally carried out by females,toward a modern and feminist expression of the technique.On the other hand, she is fascinated by the materiality of the practice itself.Examples of this include the feeling of the thread gently passing through thefingers, the expressiveness of knots viewed as abrupt interruptions of theCollettivo artistico Matazzcontinuous line drawn by the taut thread, or the unique way in which colormaterializes in the fabric.

Walter Manuel 

Lugano, Switzerland

Born in 1998, Manuel attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where heobtained a Bachelor's degree in Decoration in 2020. In 2021, he notably won theAvant Young Volvo Milano award. 

 In 2022, he created 'Virtual Microcosms', his firstinstallation work, at the Doppia V Gallery in Lugano. He then moved to Valencia,where he completed the second year of his Master's degree at the UniversitatPolitècnica in the Faculty of Fine Arts.Manuel's artistic research mainly focuses on the creation of multisensoryinstallations. The use of light as well as the employment of recycled materials thatare later reworked is very frequent in his practice. The themes dealt with, as well asthe materials and techniques used, evolve from one project to the next.The latest works focus on spiritual themes related to the dream world, archetypes,as well as the importance of the unconscious and psychoanalysis.He is currently working on his degree thesis 'Art as an initiatory experience'.

Zucchetti Enea

Lugano, Switzerland

From his young age, Enea (1996) has cultivated a strong interest in cinema andvisual arts. During adolescence, he eagerly practiced skateboarding and writing,which led him to develop a particular sensitivity for architecture and urban spaces.In 2017, he moved to Milan to study and pursue the discipline of filmmaking.

His education continued with courses at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio aswell as a workshop guided by Werner Herzog on the island of Lanzarote. Through his work, Enea visually investigates and explores the utopias anddystopias of the contemporary landscape. His audiovisual projects have been featured in numerous renowned film festivals, notably including Locarno Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Laceno d'Oro, SESIFF Seoul, and others. Along with his personal projects, he works within film and television productions,as well as commercial director in the fields of fashion and design.